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How long can a person live if your brain is dead from strokes but you are still breathing and your heart is still beating?
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∙ 13y ago
If your brain is dead you are dead. Because that is the thing sending all the signals for your body to still function.
Agreeing to the above statement, you CAN live if you have a working brain stem, however you would be a vegetable state and that is never any fun.
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How does your brain keeps us alive?
The brain stem, which consists of the midbrain, pons, and medulla, ot medulla oblongata - which keeps you breathing and your heart beating in proper rhythm.
Can someone survive without a brain?
A person can continue breathing with very little of the brain remaining. If the entire brain is removed, the person dies.
Once breathing has stopped and the heart has ceased beating brain death generally begins within how many minutes?
5 minutes
What causes a person to lose capability to sign their name?
Strokes can cause this because they make a person lose some of their brain function. Brain damage can also cause this.
Why is the brainstem the most important part of the brain?
the brain stem is small part of the brain and the most important one because it keeps you breathing,keep your heart beating and also keep food moving through your digestive system.
Why do doctors consider a person dead when the brain is not working but the heart is still beating?
This is because being dead is defined as stoppage in the functioning of brain and it is not having any relation with the functioning of heart. If the heart stops beating then there is no supply of oxygen rich blood to the brain and hence the brain dies and henceforth the person is declared dead.
How long a person die when he stop breathing?
After three minutes of not breathing, the brain is essentially devoid of use. After 5 minutes of not breathing, the body shuts down.
Resuscitation is not possible in brain death or clinical death?
Clinical death. Clinical death means the heart stops beating and a person stops breathing, at this stage a person can still be resuscitated. However while in this condition blood stops flowing to the brain and as a result the brain does not get the oxygen it requires to survive. if this condition lasts for too long then the brain dies. the result of which is that the body has no director to make it function properly and will die as well as a result.
How are strokes?
Strokes are caused by a disruption of blood supply to the brain, often a blood clot.
Why are strokes important to people?
Strokes can lead to cognitive (brain) and physical damage, from mild to severe implications. In severe stroke, a person can be left without the capacity to think, feel, and move their body.
What does STROKES mean?
A hemorrhagic stroke relates to your brain. Strokes can occur in large or vast amounts (small usually referred to mini stroke). Strokes all take place in the brain. Some people usually think strokes are heart related.
What characterizes all strokes?
they occur in the brain
